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117
Rubella (German measles)
Number who received immunisation
Vaccination against Tuberculosis
1387
During 1971 one case of pulmonary tuberculosis in a school
child was notified by the Chest physician. Epidemiological investigations
were undertaken and no other cases in either members of the
school staff or class contacts were elicited. Arrangements were
made for tests to be repeated during 1972.
The scheme for the routine B.C.G. (Bacillus Calmette - Guerin)
vaccination of school children between their thirteenth and fourteenth
birthdays continued during the year. Pulmonary tuberculosis is steadily
being brought under control by early diagnosis and rapid and efficient
treatment. The following table summarises the work undertaken:

Children found to be Mantoux positive were referred to the
Chest Clinic for chest X-ray, but none of these was found to have active
disease.